About: Cynthia Rich
Cynthia Rich is co-author with Barbara Macdonald of Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging, and Ageism (Spinsters Ink, 2001) and author of Desert Years: Undreaming the American Dream (Aunt Lute, 1989). She is co-founder of The Old Women's Project (www.oldwomensproject.org) and most recently is the author of dharma gleanings: company for a meditation practice.
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I am sitting at a table by a window of our little desert house, typing this foreword. At the other end of the table sits Barbara, her white hair newly washed above the purple oxford shirt, her carved face in profile, metal glasses glinting, as she focuses on the television screen, an air force drama, “Pensacola: Wings of Gold.” Four READ MORE